The simplicity of truth is it's profundity.
The profundity of truth is it's simplicity.
Very simple.
Applying this simplicity in our minute to minute living
is where the struggle comes into play.
Our eternal spiritual growth reminds me of a chicken in the eggshell before it hatches into the new world of the barnyard. It feels very comfortable within the confines of it's world, it's life support system - it's eggshell consciousness. If you told it that once it breaks through the comfort of it's eggshell of awareness it would enjoy a greater world, the barnyard, other chickens, roosters, corn to eat - it would call you crazy. However, unless it does eventually break through the life support system that is the eggshell - it will surely die. If you help it break through, it will die because it did not gain the strength to survive by the effort expended breaking through the eggshell. It must break through the shell, destroy it and walk through the confines of the eggshell to experience more of what life has to offer the little chicken.
It is the same with our spiritual growth. Unless you are willing
to struggle and grow through your present self-identity, are
willing to challenge your cherished ideas, beliefs and thought
patterns, and are willing to grow through a continuing rebirth
of evolving self-awareness - you will not achieve the spiritual potential available to you during this lifetime your are presently experiencing.
For you to grow spiritually to the highest degree possible to you in this lifetime on earth, to be the best of what you really are, a spirit in a material world, a spirit that God works through, a spirit in a world of infinite educational value to you in your spiritual journey requires your willingess
to let who you THINK you are die. You are SPIRIT in a MENTAL-MATERIAL
world. You do not have a spirit - you are a spirit who has
a body. The matrix of identity that you have built since you
were born into this Earth phase of your spiritual evolution
is not you. Your relationship with the body that you think
is you is very real. However, you are not the body (human)
you think is you.
You must desire spiritual
growth enough that you are literally "willing to die for
it".
I am not
saying you HAVE to die for spiritual growth. I am saying you
must not hold what you call your "human life" as more
important than your spiritual growth. You must not make your "human
identity" your "false idol or your golden calf".
You must love GOD, THE ALL IN ALL THAT IS ALL, more than what
you call your "human life and your human relationships".
Regardless of how young you are; Regardless of how healthy you are - each day you live brings you one day closer to experiencing the death of your body. What you see in the mirror is not the true "you",
but the physical vehicle you are using for this part of your eternal journey through the cosmos. Since most of your experience on this earthly plane of existence has been through the sense organs of the human body, an illusion of "human-identity" has become your sense of self-identity. Do not get attached to this illusion and believe that what you see is what you are. This belief and attachment to the human-identity gets in the way of spiritual self-knowledge.
All I ask of you is that you
are willing to completely immerse yourself in the spiritual-struggle.
As long as you willingly struggle with whatever you encounter in your spiritual growth
- then you will grow. The willingness to do the struggle, to walk the path, ensures your growth as sure as the struggle of the chicken to break through the eggshell of it's consciousness ensures it the strength to continue to grow in the new world it will find itself. Your struggle, your growth-path will be unique to you - but our destination is the same for all of us - eternal awareness and direct experience of God. Look at your spirit-struggle
as a grand adventure. It is the grandest
adventure in the infinite cosmos. The only adventure for you that will
never die. Only your self-illusion of human-identity will die.
As long as you want spiritual growth as much as the thirsty
person in the desert wants water - then let's go. Let us share
the spiritual journey as much as we can. If we each learn just
one thing from each other that helps us in our individual spiritual
adventure - then we have given each other a priceless gift
- a most holy gift.
